The Works of Elena Ferrante

Table of Contents

Introduction: Beyond the margins

Beyond the margins: Ferrante fever and Italian female writing

Grace Russo Bullaro and Stephanie Love

Part I: Notes in the margins: historicizing Ferrante's fiction

The era of the "economic miracle" and the force of context in Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend

Grace Russo Bullaro

Indexicalities of Language in Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels: Dialect and Italian as Markers of Social Value and Difference

Jillian Cavanaugh

"An educated identity" The school as a modernist chronotope in Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels

Stephanie V. Love

Part II: "All that's left in the margins" Ferrante's poetics

Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend: in search of Parthenope and the "Founding" of a New City

Franco Gallippi

Performative Realism and Post-humanism in The Days of Abandonment

Enrica Maria Ferrara

Elena Ferrante's Visual Poetics: Ekphrasis in Troubling Love, My Brilliant Friend, and The Story of a New Name

Stiliana Milkova

Part III: Smarginatura: Motherhood and female friendship

Metamorphosis and Rebirth: Greek Mythology and Initiation Rites in Elena Ferrante's Troubling Love Tiziana de Rogatis

Maternal Failure and its Bequest: Toxic Attachment in the Neapolitan Novels

Christine Maksimowicz

Breaking Bonds: Refiguring Maternity in Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter

Leslie Elwell

Telling the Abuse: A Feminist-Psychoanalytic Reading of Gender Violence, Repressed Memory and Female Subjectivity in Elena Ferrante's Troubling Love

Dixit Mater: The Significance of the Maternal Voice in Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels

Emma Van Ness

Interview with Ann Goldstein

Grace Russo Bullaro and Stephanie Love

List of Contributors

Index

Grace Russo Bullaro is Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in English at the City University of New York, Lehman College, USA. She is the author of Beyond Life is Beautiful: Comedy and Tragedy in the Cinema of Roberto Benigni; Man in Disorder: The Cinema of Lina Wertmüller in the 1970s; From Terrone to Extracomunitario: New Manifestations of Racism in Italian Cinema; and Shifting and Shaping a National Identity: Transnational Writers and Pluriculturalism in Italy Today.

Stephanie V. Love is a Ph.D. student in Linguistic Anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center, USA. She has published articles in Current Issues in Language Planning, the International Journal of Multicultural Education, and Shifting and Shaping a National Identity, edited by Grace Russo Bullaro and Elena Benelli.